Breaking - Farage attacked by missiles - FARAGE is OK!!

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I'm no fan of this man but this is just not cricket!!

A many appears to throwing rock like stuff from a bin at Farage

Thankfully the rocks missed him and I hope everyone else is safe on that bus

IMO, Farage should now get police protection

https://x.com/IamMukhtar/status/1800493683709714562

[Post edited by MNHQ to correct typo]

Dramatic? It was wet cement in a cup today, but what if it wasn't? What will it be the next time? Who will it be towards?

All violent attacks against political figures need to be condemned.

Two MP's have been killed in this country.

Refusing to condone this violence today contributes to this hostile environment where democracy is at risk.

All that violence does is make the reporting all about that and take away space that could be filled by reporting on his (and his company members) comments showing their clear racist views over the years.

Turning him into the victim will be a win for him and playing right into his hands

Yeah, it's a dangerous world. So maybe don't go around with a megaphone announcing to everyone that you're a massive racist bellend?

OP is BU.
FARAGE is not OK!!

To be fair though, Nige does support cruelty and violence at the boxing day hunt every year so he probably just thinks it's only fair that today he was the game.

This. I don’t agree with attacking him but he wouldn’t give a fuck if his hate speech caused attacks on others. I’m struggling to find my tiny violin tbh 🙄

If I was somebody at marketing for Reform, I would be saving quotes like this, and other ‘death wishes of peace & love’ from the luminaries at Mumsnet, and posting them on every billboard throughout the United Kingdom.

So if people think that (and I don’t disagree with you that he is one), why can’t they just get a megaphone and shout back that he’s a massive racist bellend?

Nobody should be physically put at threat for expressing a view, however abhorrent.

Sales of anti-bellend megaphones are going to go through the roof.

Are other people reading a different post from me? All @AliceCallous is saying is she can't bring herself to feel any emotion over the incident, not that she wholeheartedly supports it.

He's of the party who said we should let migrants drown so I struggle to muster any sympathy for this one

I dont like Keir Starmer stance on Gender.
Shall I go throw stuff at him?

How about milkshake?
Rocks?
Bullets?

Where does it end?

I'm not a fan of Dara O'Brien, can I throw shoes at him? Pointy sticks?

And is it just public eye figures, or anyone I don't like?

I don't like the guy mowing his lawn at 8am on a Sunday. Can I throw things at him? Fireworks perhaps?

That woman at Tesco checking my shopping is a bit slow, dont like her much. What can I throw at her?

I'd water I could find something about every poster here that I dislike, can I throw things at you as you go to work?

What's good for goose is good for every gander.

The cowardly.little man that threw things at Farage didn't stand up for his views, didn't debate, didn't argue his points. He threw shit and ran like a coward.

If you don't like Farage, fine, when he's in your town, go and debate him, stand up to his face and tell him and his followers why. Stand up, speak up or stay sitting and don't cheer on someone chucking crap, cause who knows what crap you'd get hurled at you if you stood up.

Go for it, you might be surprised at the support it gets

This is extremely worrying. Two MPs have been murdered in the course of their work in the last 7 years, and now a high-profile candidate has been attacked.

I disagree with Farage on most things & won’t be voting for his party, but he is a legitimate mainstream politician who speaks for a significant section of the British public. He is entitled to campaign and he should be properly protected.

People who try to silence him or intimidate him are not democrats. They should be arrested & prosecuted, and if they can’t cope with the fact that democracy entails hearing people you dislike say things you disagree with they should fuck off to China.

....and he has a colleague in Reform UK who that said women should be denied medical treatment until the life expectancy of women comes down to that of men.

Wow, hadn't heard that one! Disgusting people.

Yes, that's precisely what I'm saying.

No one should be trying to cause physical harm to any politician

This unfortunately plays right into his hands he will absolutely use this as an attack on the people that support him.

The best way to protest against him is to turn your back on him as what he thrives off is attention good or bad (like Trump) this form of protest is far more effective to show you have no respect for them (one Farage has used himself)

Sounds a bit passive. Is there no middle ground?

“Less complaining please from the ‘sponging gender’.” He added that women are “subsidised by men to merely breath (sic)”.
He reportedly wrote in December 2022: “Men pay 80% of tax. Women take out 80% of expenditures.
“Square that inequality first by depriving women of healthcare until their life expectancies are the same as men, Fair’s fair.”

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/reform-uk-candidate-ian-gribbin-bexhill-battle-hitler-nazis-nigel-farage-b1163364.html

does that also apply to those who make racist remarks about politicians or say they want to rape them?

This is quite concerning, wrongly I assumed most people on mumsnet were relatively bright and decent.

That the sentiment 'Violence is wrong...BUT' is being repeated is horrifying.

It doesn't matter how much you hate or dislike the person being attacked, there is no 'but' in that sentence.

Sickening.

I come from a country where it REALLY isn't allowed to have dissenting views. The beauty of the UK is that it is. Please don't lose that. You won't like it when they come for people with your opinions next.

So you agree with capital punishment?

why does it need to be loud

he loves nothing more than media attention and his interactions with those that disagree with him

@42ndchance Very well said. 👏👏👏